“ Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage. Joe Hill
“ I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves. Joe Hill
“ If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all. Joe Hill
“ Max raised the mallet. He stared into her face and wished he could say he was sorry, that he didn't want to do it. When he slammed the mallet down, with an echoing bang, he heard a high, piercing scre… Joe Hill
“ Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less. Joe Hill
“ He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often. Joe Hill
“ Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him. Joe Hill
“ The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way. Joe Hill
“ Does your license plate mean something?" Bing asked. "En-o-ess-four-a-two?""Nosferatu," the man Charlie Manx said."Nosfer-what-who?"Manx said, "It is one of my little jokes. My first wife once accused… Joe Hill
“ Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end. Joe Hill
“ A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God's final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought… Joe Hill
“ Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder. Joe Hill
“ He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago. Joe Hill
“ Carroll was eleven years old when he saw The Haunting in The Oregon Theater. He had gone with his cousins, but when the lights went down, his companions were swallowed by the dark and Carroll found hi… Joe Hill
“ He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leaping roots and rocks without seeing them. As he went, the hill got steeper and steeper, until it was r… Joe Hill
